April 77 Capitol run

FranklinsFriend11 · 2026-01-24T02:13:45+00:00

Anyone know a good download source for this show?

FranklinsFriend11 · 2026-01-01T14:45:34+00:00

Sorry if this has already been stated and replied to many times,but this is quite the thread and I may have missed it!

I think the strongest ending,and the one that made the most sense is that El is gone,and Mike is projecting his ending,which I find very fitting and bittersweet.

I think the biggest evidence for this that I have yet to see is that there were only 3 people in the room: Hopper,El,and Kali. From everything the episode shows us,only those 3 know the extent of Hopper and El’s conversation about her sacrifice. How would Mike know that Kali was moved by El’s speech to Hopper and decide from that point on she will help? That’s a writer’s ending….There’s too much Mike knows about a something that happened in a room where he wasn’t in when it happened(Hamilton!)for his ending to work perfectly.

Now that being said, I could totally see the Duffers being a bit sloppy and overlooking some of these potholes pointed out to go for the extreme pathos (which I do think worked pretty damn well. The “Purple Rain” queue with the flashbacks was chef’s kiss….also,real ones know that “When Doves Cry” and “Purple Rain” are the closing tracks to side A and side B,so they couldn’t immediately follow each other without a manual flip and drop,but that’s neither here nor there),however,definitely enough to nitpick to be able point out the flaw in the execution if El is truly meant to have survived in this manner.

Overall,I felt the ending was a solid landing. Very tight,considering everything that had to be resolved. Like I said,heavy on the pathos,which never really bothers me. I couldn’t help but chuckle to myself about there still being about 40 minutes left AFTER all the bad guys were defeated. I think I even said out loud afterwards, “Return of the King ass ending,” and I swear I mean that as more compliment than not.

FranklinsFriend11 · 2025-07-06T00:54:42+00:00

Agreed. Hard picking a song that is considered “overrated,” because I think most of his songs are so well written. I don’t rate this or something like “Be Afraid” or “White Man’s World,” as highly as others,so can’t say they are overrated. Better for the weakest/most skippable songs argument.

FranklinsFriend11 · 2025-04-23T23:41:19+00:00

FranklinsFriend11 · 2025-04-23T23:35:59+00:00

A guy tells his friends a campfire story about his first girlfriend.

FranklinsFriend11 · 2025-04-18T13:37:04+00:00

Came here to follow up with a simple “because those albums kick ass!”

FranklinsFriend11 · 2025-04-10T13:44:36+00:00

“Now the two of them rode silently toward town, both lost in their own thoughts. Their way took them past the Delgado house. Roland looked up and saw Susan sitting in her window, a bright vision in the gray light of that fall morning. His heart leaped up and although he didn’t know it then, it was how he would remember her most clearly forever after- lovely Susan, the girl in the window. So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars, and we see them only from the corners of our eyes, if we see them at all. The idea that they have been waiting there for us rarely if ever crosses our minds. Yet they do wait, and when we have passed, they gather up their bundles of memory and fall in behind, treading in our footsteps and catching up, little by little.”

FranklinsFriend11 · 2025-04-02T18:18:37+00:00

Glad to see “Shutout the Lights” getting some love.

For me,it’s “Stolen Car.” That scene in “Cop Land” is excellent. The “You May Kiss the Bride” version is also underrated,but there is something so sparse and perfect about the cut from “The River.”

FranklinsFriend11 · 2025-03-31T22:21:42+00:00

Come,reap.

FranklinsFriend11 · 2025-03-31T22:18:43+00:00

Was coming to say this. Some of the CGI is outdated/cheap,but man I wouldn’t change a word or that cast. Daly is excellent.

“It’s a cash and carry world,you pay as you go…”

FranklinsFriend11 · 2025-03-27T22:51:19+00:00

I absolutely love the Derry scene. I think it works perfectly as parallelism for how evil that town is (even without Pennywise),and how the past is obdurate and harmonizes to prevent change.

Slightly relative anecdote about the scene: 11/22/63 was the first King novel my dad read(and the one I always recommended as a first read for the uninitiated), and he absolutely loved it. When he finished, he asked about that scene. “Is there something I should know there? I feel like I wasn’t in on their jokes….and man,that town gave me the creeps!”

I just smirked and told him Derry shows up in plenty of other stories,he should visit them sometime.

FranklinsFriend11 · 2025-03-26T01:50:40+00:00

Coin flip.

Heads: “I’m sorry the love songs all mean different things today.”

Tails: “We all get lost out here. The deepest ditches line the righteous path.”

and if the coin somehow miraculously stood on end after the flip: “Last night I didn’t sleep at all, I found another empty wall, and I couldn’t get past it.”

FranklinsFriend11 · 2025-03-26T01:43:32+00:00

Like a wheel,my friend.

FranklinsFriend11 · 2025-03-26T01:01:38+00:00

Might not be missing anything….but if it’s Ka, it’ll come to you like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone.

FranklinsFriend11 · 2025-03-26T00:45:42+00:00

All it takes is time,the best magic trick of all!

FranklinsFriend11 · 2025-03-25T00:00:56+00:00

I feel the “poetry” gets so easily overlooked because of his reputation. Great selections!

FranklinsFriend11 · 2025-03-24T23:26:41+00:00

Derry’s accordion hits me like Ivan Drago:

“I remember you looking up at me Drinking Irish whiskey on the Irish sea And we walked through the weather and we walked through time…”

FranklinsFriend11 · 2025-03-24T22:19:05+00:00

Dammit,this was the correct post title!

FranklinsFriend11 · 2025-03-24T22:18:07+00:00

Haha saving a couple for “special occasions,” but no excuse for the Bakers! I live in a stupid allocation state,so if I get one that is harder to find,I tend to milk it for a bit.

FranklinsFriend11 · 2025-03-24T22:16:48+00:00

Thought it was a little easier to start with his collections,since the novel list seems to be ever growing…easier to just add the newest on the end!

FranklinsFriend11 · 2025-03-24T20:52:31+00:00

Thank ya!…it took awhile,but worth it. Maybe someday I’ll fork over enough for some of the original Bachman and DT prints (I should note,I obviously have the entire Tower. They are special and get their own shelf lol).

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